The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-07
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE eminent John l.. Sullivan is writing a
book. There is room to believe that it will make
a hit-Philadelphia Press.
WILL the Pullman porter have to pay fare
under the provisions of the interstate commerce
law? If this colored autocrat is forced to pay
railroad fare, then may the Lord have mercy Oh
the travellers Minneapolis Tribune.
IT is to be regretted that bad management has
turned the national drill into sectional affair.
If the admission of negro companies was con-
tempated at first. nothing was said to put tho
white military upon notice.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Mr.. HENRY W. GRADY might get the two
Montgomery and the Atlanta military companies
that are afraid of ''nlgger" that they won't
camp OF the same ground with him. to listen to
lectures on the "New South. National Repub-
lican.
THE result in Michigan shows tina. the people
are becoming tired of the bother and ding-dong
of prohibition. The reason is that prohibition
does not prohibt-it merely licenses without
charge and increases the evils of the liquor traf-
fc. AS prohibition has failed, try taxation.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE opinion of a newspaper or its editor
should be given in the editorial columns. Then
the reader will know where the opinions come
from. To give them anywhere else and brand
them as the expressions of prominent citizens"
respectable Democrats" or Influential Repnb-
leans is to attempt deliberate cheat upon the
reader Chicago Mail
OF Indiana in recent interview says that a re-
duction of the tariff will be leading issue in the
next election; that the Democrats will renomi-
nate Cleveland if he will accept, and that civil
service reform is a sham. He is right the
latter point, if the present administration is a
civil-service reform Administrations milwaukee
Sentinel
THE Labor vote has been called out only in a
few cities. but the showing it made for Henry
George in this city last year, that it has just
made in Cincinnati, and is undoubtedly making
in Chicago to-day, proves how formidable it
might become if generally organized The Pro-
bbtion vote in New York cost the Republicans
the presidency in 1884. The Labor vote might
defeat the Democrats in 1888, if arrayed against
them.-New York World.
WE think the Union Labor party may be very
useful that it may in many places put the old
Democratic fraud in a hole, as in this city--that
1T may dissolve the stagnation OF despotism in
the solid South-that it may force the Demo
cratic party to come to business on questions of
business--and we shall not be alarmed while, in
the language of Rufus Choate. they march under
the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.
New York Commercial Advertiser
THE theory of our penal institutions is to re-
form criminals. vet when they have served their
sentences they are still regarded AS dangerous.
So in practice the tendency is to force them to
continue lives of crime. How many have thus
been prevented from again becoming good citi.
zens! certificate of good conduct in prison
entities an ex-convct to fair chance, and this
the Ialr- mlnOe0 nan Win any CnrlStlan charity
in his composition will give him.-Philadelphi
North American
If the commission takes liberal view of the
qualifications put upon the prohibition in regard
to the long and short haul there will be no seri
Gus difficulty in applying it in a manner which
will not injuriously affect business. and they
should certainly seek to make such applica-
ton. The commission is not the ultimate au-
thority in constituting the law and, if occasion
requires, it may be subjected to judicial inter-
probation in respect to these points; but it is
desirable that litigation for that purpose should
be avoided if possible.-New York Times.
WHAT the people need is more temperance
and full assortment of all the known varieties.
The drink evil is one of the worst of evils, but
there are other great evils which should come
under the head of intemperance we'll as the
drink evil There is the lie evil. the loud talk
evil. the swear evil. the gutton evil, the social
evil, and other evils too numerous to mention.
A well-baanced mind with big, clean heart for
companion generally steers man clear of most
of these evils. Train child up in the way he
should go and when he gets old you won't have
to turn him to the Legislature for moral
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